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Dietrich Oberwittler
Dr. Oberwittler has been working with Principal Investigator Per-Olof Wikström since 2004 when he worked for the SCoPiC Network as a Marie Curie fellow until 2006. His particular expertise revolve around spatial analysis and the neighbourhood dimension of crime. He and Professor Wikström produced a methodological chapter in a book on spatial crime research:
Oberwittler, D. & Wikström, P-O (2008). Why small is better. Advancing the study of the role of behavioral contexts in crime causation. In D. Weisburd, W. Bernasco & G. Bruinsma (eds), Putting crime in its place: Units of analysis in spatial crime research. New York. Springer.
Background
Dr Oberwittler studied social sciences and history at the Universities of Münster and Bonn and University College London. He was a doctoral student at the University of Trier where he received a DPhil for his thesis on the development of juvenile justice in Germany and England between 1850 and 1920. He joined the Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg in 1997 where he has taught sociology and led several research teams.
In 2005-06, he was appointed affiliated Lecturer in the law faculty, University of Cambridge. He then returned to the Max Planck Institute as a senior researcher in 2006 and was promoted to Research group Leader (comparable to associate professor) in 2008. He is also a Privatdozent for Sociology at the University of Freiburg.
In 2006, he initiated the European Homicide-Suicide Study (EHSS), a combined micro- and macro-level analysis of familial homicide-suicide events in several European countries. Other recent research activities include a spatial analysis of regional crime patterns in South-West Germany and public opinion research on punitiveness and the death penalty in China. His research interests lie in the fields of juvenile delinquency, social ecology of crime, urban sociology and quantitative methodology.
For more information see: http://www.mpicc.de/ww/de/pub/home/oberwittler.htm
Email: d.oberwittler@mpicc.de
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